Singin' with the Big Bands

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Singin' with the Big Bands
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Released1994
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Length52:30
Label Arista
Barry Manilow chronology
Greatest Hits: The Platinum Collection
(1994)
Singin' with the Big Bands
(1994)
Summer of '78
(1996)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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Robert Christgau C [2]
Entertainment Weekly C+ [3]

Singin' with the Big Bands is a 1994 album by Barry Manilow.

Contents

The album was Manilow's first to reach gold since Because It's Christmas (1990).

Track listing

  1. "Singin' With The Big Bands" (Barry Manilow, Bruce Sussman) 2:28
  2. "Sentimental Journey" - Featuring Les Brown and his Band of Renown (Bud Green, Les Brown, Ben Homer) 3:19
  3. "And the Angels Sing" (Johnny Mercer, Ziggy Elman) 3:04
  4. "Green Eyes" - Featuring The Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra with Rosemary Clooney (Eddie Rivera, Eddie Woods, Nilo Menendez) 3:19 (with Rosemary Clooney)
  5. "I Should Care" (Sammy Cahn, Axel Stordahl, Paul Weston) 3:02
  6. "Don't Get Around Much Anymore" - Featuring The Duke Ellington Orchestra (Duke Ellington, Bob Russell) 2:58
  7. "I Can't Get Started" (Vernon Duke, Ira Gershwin) 4:29
  8. "Chattanooga Choo Choo" (Mack Gordon, Harry Warren) 3:24
  9. "Moonlight Serenade" (Glenn Miller, Mitchell Parish) 4:50
  10. "On the Sunny Side of the Street" - Featuring the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra (Dorothy Fields, Jimmy McHugh) 3:26
  11. "All or Nothing at All" - Featuring The Harry James Orchestra (Arthur Altman, Jack Lawrence) 3:02
  12. "I'll Never Smile Again" - Featuring The Tommy Dorsey Orchestra (Ruth Lowe) 3:08
  13. "I'm Getting Sentimental over You" (George Bassman, Ned Washington) 3:27
  14. "Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree (with Anyone Else but Me)" - Featuring The Glenn Miller Orchestra with Debra Byrd (Lew Brown, Sam H. Stept, Charles Tobias) 2:52
  15. "(I'll Be with You in) Apple Blossom Time" (Neville Fleeson, Albert Von Tilzer) 2:31
  16. "Where Does the Time Go?" (Barry Manilow, Bruce Sussman) 3:10

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